India, Finance & Markets



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Thomson Reuters launches Elektron in India
The financial information group has opened a branch of its high-speed market data system in Mumbai to provide bundled services to firms and traders

India pushes on with power sell-off
The government is preparing to tap investor appetite for emerging markets deals by listing its state-owned coal mining company and selling a stake in its oil company

India to ease foreign access to equity markets
A government-commissioned review into capital inflows has recommended the finance ministry make it easier for overseas investors to buy shares on Indian exchanges

India raises rates
Asian policymakers have reverted to the business of balancing growth and inflation

India needs to go for stronger growth
Economic development is the best cure for poverty. Ensuring that growth benefits the most number of people is partly a matter of prioritising but Manmohan Singh's government should also give liberalisation another push

Cameron seeks Indian military contracts
Hawk jets and design plans for aircraft carriers will be among the wares as Mr Cameron and cabinet ministers embark on a trade mission

India cuts petrol subsidies
India has decided to end state control over petrol prices, allowing them to move with the global market – a crucial first step towards reducing New Delhi's massive petroleum subsidy bill

Backlash over India minimum float rule
Anger at rule change that will lead to a flood of more than $50bn of new shares being listed in India over three years

India
Multinational companies' love affair with India is not all sweetness and light. UK companies, which have embraced the Indian growth story and surging middle class, are discovering the pitfalls

StanChart seals India share sale
Standard Chartered finished its $590m Indian depositary receipt offering with bids worth more than two times the value of the shares on offer

Telecommunications: A tough call
Telecommunications: A rapidly expanding sector with the potential to drive the country's economic growth yet beset by falling revenues is increasingly seen as a test of Indian policymaking

Ambani vs Ambani
Investors have cheered the truce in the long-running sibling rivalry

Temasek buys NYSE's stake in Mumbai bourse
Singapore's Temasek Holdings buys a 5 per cent stake in India's National Stock Exchange from NYSE Euronext as part of its expansion strategy in Asia

Indian cotton exports ban boosts US shippers
The ban also damages the competitiveness of textile mills in Bangladesh, Pakistan and China, a country whose estimated 9.5m bales of annual imports lead the world

Essar Energy sets IPO price range
The power, oil and gas company being spun out of India's Essar Group conglomerate has set the range for a planned $2.5bn London stock market flotation between 450p and 550p a share